Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[H-Ranch]

Not my design, just been tweaking it to suit my needs.

Maybe I'm having trouble seeing it, but is that control designed for a left hand operation? The way it's shaded makes it look like your fingers would wrap that way. Probably have to hold it on my hand to make sure it "feels" right, which I'm sure is a big part of the reason for prototyping.

 

[GrizG]

Until I bought my property in Hancock in 1985, we used to hunt out of Margaretville.

My Uncle used to live up there and a co-worker owned a cabin (off the grid). In addition, my Uncle knew many of the farmers. But, little by little folks died or sold and I found my property (50 acres for $300/ acre) just in time to keep the family hunting tradition in the Catskills going. At the time, most of NYS was still shotgun only for deer, and we wanted to be rifle hunters (as we collected and reloaded).

We could not drive to the co-worker's cabin, so we backpacked food and water up the mountain every year. In addition, I did not have a chainsaw back then, so we went up several times in the off season to shoot and cut wood with bow saws. The cabin had an old (original) wood burning cooking stove/oven. You had to have a lot of small wood to feed it, and the "heating" wood stove was not airtight!

Good thing I was younger then, it was a lot of work!

In the 70s I hunted Arkville, where the train station is located, off Drybrook Rd. We backpacked into the state land and camped. In the 80s we hunted Bloomville which is where the U&D corridor ended. Also hunted Andes in the 80s. Up behind the Andel Inn on 28. I like that area!

 

[Gardiner Schneider]

A typical Central Hudson bill View attachment 1235657

 

[Gardiner Schneider]

A typical Central Hudson billView attachment 1235657

Thank you for the break down on the utility bill. Your E bill looks a lot like mine here in Maine. If I could not understand it all, which I cannot, then I could spend a day or two calling to find out what it all means...if anyone would talk to me. Then, once I understood it all, I could do what you, and everyone else, has to do, which is shut my mouth and pay.

 

[sundance]

I guess I’m the odd duck, I don’t mind cutting in the summer. But it’s usually after 5 when the angle of the sun isn’t too bad. I like sweating out all the toxins

I can agree. Evenings to install toxins, days to sweat them out.

 

[sean donato]

Maybe I'm having trouble seeing it, but is that control designed for a left hand operation? The way it's shaded makes it look like your fingers would wrap that way. Probably have to hold it on my hand to make sure it "feels" right, which I'm sure is a big part of the reason for prototyping.

So there's a "left" and "right" joy stick file the guy posted. But I'm fairly sure he had them mislabeled. I printed the "right" side one first and it didn't feel right in my right hand. Fingers didn't even land intuitively near the buttons, so I printed out the left and it fit my right hand great. Thought I was crazy, so I had my wife and kids hold them both, and pick which one they thought felt good in their right hand, all three of them picked the one that is marked "left."
See of you can see the difference in these pictures.



Left and right in the orientation they should be in. (Don't mind the scale difference.)

This is the "left" one in my right hand. (Smaller one.)

Better pic of the "left" one

This is the "right" one.
The contors are just all off for sitting nice in your right hand.
Kinda hard to articulate with just the pictures, I'll try to get a few better shots when it's finished.

 

[sean donato]

I can agree. Evenings to install toxins, days to sweat them out.

Last time I did that I could hardly move the next day, and my head let me know i did something really stupid as soon as I woke up. getting older is for the birds.

 

[sundance]

Good on you. Burn baby burn! It seems backwards to me that they are even talking about stopping people from heating their homes with a renewable resource like firewood when there are still people with oil furnaces. I'm going through more wood in my little shop these last few days too. An armload usually lasts me the evening keeping it around 60-70 and I've been stepping out to grab a second

Last time I did that I could hardly move the next day, and my head let me know i did something really stupid as soon as I woke up. getting older is for the birds.

2 comments:
1. Quantity makes a difference.
2. Practice does matter.

 

[JimR]

I guess I’m the odd duck, I don’t mind cutting in the summer. But it’s usually after 5 when the angle of the sun isn’t too bad. I like sweating out all the toxins

I also cut a lot during the Summer. I don't mind sweating and it keeps my weight down. I don't know how much cutting will get done this Summer with the new puppy. He and I are going to be visiting nature a real lot. I told my wife that I need a sidecar for motorcycle. She asked why. I said that the dog needs a place to sit. LOL

 

[MechanicMatt]

I can agree. Evenings to install toxins, days to sweat them out.

Exactly!!!

 

[sean donato]

2 comments:
1. Quantity makes a difference.

2. Practice does matter.

1.That was full when I started

2. Not much practice these days. Actually a rare occasion for me to drink at all.